So, reddit’s shit platform is set up so that if you use their default news link it shows subs you have filtered out. Well, I happen to filter subs I’ve been banned from and the cowards at r/worldnews banned me because I said a mean thing about America a while back.

As it turns out… I had not noticed the sub when I was using an alt account and posted a comment to their little walled-garden, and now it seems I’m permabanned from all of Reddit.

And I mean- every account I make is instantly banned-

So my question is:

How can I block all of that shithole from showing up on iOS web searches. I cannot interact with the site. So I’d rather it not appear in web searches altogether.

  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    You could add something like -site:reddit.com to your search query, or alternatively use a search engine like Kagi which allows you to block sites from all future queries.

    I believe uBlock Origin is also able to do this, but I’m not sure that is possible to use on iOS (I don’t have an iPhone).

        • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Appreciate the help. I’m not even able to appeal it. They hard locked me out of their platform. LMAO. All for accidentally making a comment in a sub I was banned from, using an alt. I even had that sub blocked from my feed.

            • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
              4·
              1 day ago

              Yeah. It’s just that there’s subs for games I play where I liked being able to ask questions. Those communities don’t exist here.

              • modernangel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                3·
                1 day ago

                It is a problem how Reddit became a de facto aggregator of support channels, not just hobbyist communities. DuckDuckGo’s sub is the primary DDG support channel, among countless other examples. It positions Reddit as the gatekeeper of Beijing-style “social credit” and getting banned there is tantamount to being Unperson’ed in some contexts.

              • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                I definitely can acknowledge that there are less niche communites here. But the generic communities, especially for gaming, are very popular and I’m sure they’d welcome your questions there!

                You can also create the community on your own, if you really wanted a niche community. Frequent quality posts are the way to grow a new community here.

                • Pratai@piefed.caOPEnglish
                  1·
                  17 hours ago

                  Yeah. It doesn’t really work that way. Others have created subs for the games I play. There’s like between 1 and 5 people in them and next to no activity. Reddit pretty much much owns game support forums.

                  • dil@lemmy.zip
                    1·
                    14 hours ago

                    If even one person comments it stays on active feeds for anyone who browses that way.
                    Basically stuff doesn’t get buried here, if someones on here and played that game, they don’t need to be on the same instance or subbed to see your post

                  • dil@lemmy.zip
                    1·
                    14 hours ago

                    not how lemmy works, post to any community with no members/activity and it still shows up on all for everyone because of how low the activity is, this is actually a pro since you get more eyes on your post and more possibility of interaction no matter the community, a lot of your stuff just goes into the void on reddit

                  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    1·
                    15 hours ago

                    I mean, only because people allow reddit to own those support forums and don’t want to migrate over to anything else. The same thing happened with Discord.

                    The generic games communities here are very popular, though.